Unanswered Questions

September 11th - Unanswered Questions

This page is dedicated to raising the profile of the widespread underground media analysis of the events of September 11th, and the increasingly disturbing questions raised by the inconsistencies in the "received version" of events.

911: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & Senate Approval Of Torture - Last week, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly confessed during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at the US prison in the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is said to have admitted planning virtually every al-Qaeda attack on the United States. But during the military tribunal proceedings, he also said he was tortured during his four-year confinement in CIA secret prisons. Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) viewed the Guantanamo proceedings over a special video link into the US Senate. See... Ann Wright: The Sheikh and the Torture Senator MORE:

UQ Wire: What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks? - On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, an FBI bulletin known as a BOLO - "be on lookout" -- was issued with regard to three suspicious men who that morning were seen leaving the New Jersey waterfront minutes after the first plane hit World Trade Center 1. Law enforcement officers across the New York-New Jersey area were warned in the radio dispatch to watch for a "vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack": White, 2000 Chevrolet van with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals. See... UQ Wire: High-Fivers and Art Student Spies

Biological Weapons: - Anthrax Murderers To Walk Free Thanks To FBI Coverup - The perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely was a government scientist employed at the Armyâs Ft. Detrick, Md., bioterrorism lab having access to a âmoonsuitâ that made it possible to safely process and manufacture super-weapons-grade anthrax, a bioterrorism authority says. Although only a âhandfulâ of scientists had the ability to perpetrate the crime, the culprit, or culprits, among them may never be identified as the FBI ordered the destruction of the anthrax culture collection at Ames, Ia., from which the Ft. Detrick lab got its pathogens, the authority said. See... UQ Wire: Anthrax Attack On Congress FBI Cover Up MORE UQ WIRE:

The 9/11 Doco They Should Have Shown This Anniversary - The new documentary 9/11 Press for Truth premiered on September 10th in Washington, DC. The film played at the nearly packed Landmark E Street Cinema just around the corner from FBI headquarters. While the irony was not intentional, it was clearly appropriate. In the filmâs first five minutes, we hear FBI Director Robert Mueller tell us that the agency simply had no idea that terrorists would ever use planes to attack the United States. See... Film Review: 9/11 Press for Truth MORE 911 REMEMBRANCES:

Terror: The 9/11 Anniversary Approaches - The Oliver Stone movie World Trade Center is another moving hagiopic to the terrible sacrifice of 9-11, designed maybe to redeem him from the wilder theories of JFK. But it isn't the time for such a movie, we've been celebrating ourselves for being victims in 9-11 for 5 years now, and it's too much. It's time to stop congratulating ourselves for something we didn't do. See... UQ Wire: Hammernews - 9-11 Narcissism MORE:

Cocaine One Saga Gets Big Play South Of The Border - An unidentified 40-year old American wearing a green polo shirt was in charge of the contingent of drug traffickers on the ground awaiting the arrival of the DC9 â Cocaine Oneâ airliner arriving from Venezuela on the evening of April 11th with a spectacular haul of 5.5 tons of pure cocaine aboard, according to a recent article in Mexican newspaper Proceso by a respected Mexican journalist. See... 5 Ton DC9 Coke Bust: Worse Than Snakes On A Plane

VF Bombshell: Hijack Exercise Disrupted 911 Response - NORAD & Dick Cheney Lied For 5 Years On Feb 19 2002 Scoop published a seminal article detailing inconsistencies in the NORAD account of what happened in two hours on the morning of September the 11th 2001. Yesterday the Washington Post reported: "We to this day don't know why NORAD told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the [US Congress Apppointed 911] commission. "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."Kyle Hence Writes For The UQ Wire: Recent articles in corporate media examine deception and lying by the Department of Defense relative to the attacks of September 11th 2001. They shed light on an effective cover-up by the 9/11 Commission... Links to these articles follow as do 11 questions which these revelations and NORAD tapes beg to be asked and which must be answered: See... 11 Questions Avoided by the Media On NORAD TapesEARLIER COVERAGE OF NORAD LIES:

A Secret 911 Skeptic Declares Herself - I said I'd never do it -- say what I think about that terrible morning of September 11, 2001. I've seen what happens to those who question the elaborate, tangled explanations the Bush administration offers about what happened, how it happened, who did it, and why they did it. It doesn't matter if those who dare speak truth to the lies are professors, investigative reporters, eyewitnesses, scientists -- "conspiracy theorist" is immediately tattooed on their foreheads. They are jeered at, ridiculed, spat upon and swift-boated right out of the room. They are banished to the outskirts of civilized society. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 - Eliminating The Impossible MORE:

New Book: AMERICA'S "WAR ON TERRORISM" - In this new and expanded edition of Michel Chossudovsky's 2002 best seller, the author blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by "Islamic terrorists". Through meticulous research, the author uncovers a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration. See... UQ Wire: Michel Chossudovsky's New 911 Book

Greg Palast On The 4th Anniversary Of 911 - In the War on Terror, we are all on the front lines. Now Southold has apparently been targeted by Al Qaeda. I'm not surprised. Southold, if you look at a map, is situated at the ass end of nowhere. We are known for our Strawberry Festival and fire truck parade. According to the Census, this tiny place is made up almost entirely of inbred farmers, real estate speculators and volunteer firemen. See... Greg Palast: Terror In Tiny Town MORE:

Who Is The Real Mohamed Atta? 2 Books One Man - Mohamed Atta didn?t drink, do cocaine, or hang out in strip clubs, and the official FBI account of the terrorist conspiracy to take down the World Trade Center is pretty much right on the money, according to a new book, "Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers, Who They Were, Why They Did It," by Terry McDermott, a reporter for the L.A. Times. Mini-review: 'Perfect Soldiers is perfect dreck... But dreck which speaks volumes about the state of the 9.11 cover-up." See... UQ Wire: 9.11 Shuck n' Jive at Shuckum's MORE:

Sibel Edmonds: Denied But Not Out - The Appeal Court?s decision on Sibel Edmonds? Case is out: ?Case Dismissed;? no opinion cited; no reason provided. The Court?s decision, issued on Friday, May 6, has generated a string of obituaries; ?another major blow, maybe the last one, to Sibel Edmonds, a woman who has faced an unprecedented level of government secrecy, gag orders, and classification.? Well, dear friends and supporters, Sibel Edmonds may be gagged, but she?s not dead. See... UQ Wire: Sibel Edmonds - Gagged, But Not Dead

UQ Wire: If The Moon Could Talk, What Would It Say? - While the controversy in England about the advice of the Attorney General on the legality of the Iraq war rages on and fuels requests for its publication in full, in America, George W. Bush is luckier and has survived the Valerie Plame issue, WMD?s, and the scathing report on the failure of intelligence prior to 9/11, the question is, how would both deal with the issue brought up in this article that potentially dwarfs all other issues. See... UQ Wire: Bush, Blair and the Osama Tapes

UQ Wire: Mitchel Cohen Survey's The 911 Skeptic's Lectionary - For 50 minutes, from 8:15 a.m. until 9:05 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense were aware that four domestic U.S. passenger airplanes had been hijacked. See... UQ Wire: The Role Of The U.S. Government On 9-11

UQ Wire: NYT On Sibel Edmond's Vindication - Washington - The F.B.I. has failed to aggressively investigate accusations of espionage against a translator at the bureau and fired the translator's co-worker in large part for bringing the accusations, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded on Friday. See... UQ Wire: F.B.I. Rebuked Over Sibel Edmonds Firing

UQ Wire: Homeland Sec. Nominee's Connection To Terror - Michael Chertoff, appointed by President Bush to head the Homeland Security Department, may have shielded from criminal prosecution while in charge of the U.S. Government?s 9.11 investigation a former client suspected by law enforcement of having funneled ... See... UQ: Kerik, Chertoff... Who's Next? Tony Soprano?

UQ Wire: A Letter From Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds - For the past three years the United States Department of Justice has been relentlessly engaged in actions geared towards covering up my reports and investigations into my allegations. See... UQ Wire: An Open Letter From Sibel Edmonds

UQ Wire: More FBI Whistleblowers Join Sibel Edmonds - Among the unanswered questions of 9-11 is the part played by the FBI in handling the various tips and information pouring through its translation section at the Washington, D.C., field office. See... UQ Wire: More FBI 9/11 Whistleblowers Emerge

UQ Wire: Guess Who's Been Consorting With The Enemy? - Three years and counting since the 9.11 attack without an official investigation to whose results the American people are privy, and the questions are only growing thornier. See... UQ Wire: Consorting With The Enemy? (In 3 Parts)

UQ Wire: Doubts Cast On Official WTC Collapse Explanation - An executive at Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the company that certified the steel used in the construction of the World Trade Center, has questioned the common theory that fuel fires caused the Twin Towers to collapse. See... UQ Wire: Underwriter Speaks Out On WTC Study

U.S. Election: 9/11 Truth Election Day Editorials - As writers and activists, we have been involved in 9/11 research and the truth movement since day one. Today we are urging New Yorkers to vote for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb - and we are asking our allies in the rest of the country to suspend their gag reflex long enough to vote for John Kerry. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 Truth and the 2004 Election and Day Of The Dead: The Haunting Of The White House

UQ Wire: The Black Hole Of Conspiracy Theory - The world of conspiracy theories is like a black hole....And it is the place the Powers That Be will toss any sinister and dark questions about their behavior, safe in the knowledge that anyone who goes to look for the answer will have to dive into that gnarled world and will look foolish and silly and will be probably be laughed off the stage. See... UQ Wire: Mark Morford On Conspiracy Theory

UQ Wire: Black Box Cover-up At Ground Zero - Two men who worked extensively in the wreckage of the World Trade Center claim they helped federal agents find three of the four " black boxes " from the jetliners that struck the towers on 9/11 - contradicting the official account. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 Black Box Cover-Up At Ground Zero?

UQ Wire: Zelikow Fails To Impress At Stanford - After witnessing the excruciating travails of fellow 9/11 activists trying to make a difference, I now have more first hand experience of what a monster all of us face, and how much respect and admiration I have for people in the 9/11 truth movement. See... UQ Wire: Welcome To My World Dr. Philip Zelikow

UQ Wire: Rewriting Recent History - An effort to expurgate ?inconvenient knowledge? about the 9.11 attack and the American response which followed gathered steam this week with two developments seemingly designed to remove from public view several crucial aspects of recent history. See... UQ Wire: Erasing 9/11 History

UQ Wire: "Confronting The Evidence" Event Reviewed - "Regrettably, I will not be able to do justice to all the speakers and certainly will not be able to communicate the electricity in the room." - Judy Andreas on "Confronting the Evidence" See... UQ Wire: Confronting the Evidence ? Report/Review

The Dumbest Election Ever - The clearest indication that the country is coming out from under the massive psychological concussion of September 11 is the fact that we are all enduring the stupidest Presidential election season in recent memory. See... William Rivers Pitt: Dumbest. Election. Ever.

Michael Ruppert Addresses The Means & Motivations Behind 9/11 - The speech is long, but a must read for anyone interested in the future of the United States, peak oil, 9/11, the 2004 election, and related topics. See... UQ Wire: Michael C. Ruppert To Commonwealth Club

Spy For Top Job At Intelligence Agency - THE MAN PICKED by President George W Bush to head America?s Central Intelligence Agency is even more of an intelligence insider than has so far been revealed... See... See... UQ Wire: Was Bush Spy Pick On Agency Hit Team?

UQ Wire: The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11 - That governments have permitted terrorist acts against their own people , and have even themselves been perpetrators in order to find strategic advantage is quite likely true, but this is the United States we're talking about. See... UQ Wire: The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11

UQ Wire: Activists Vindicated By Court - On March 18th, 2004, activists from the No Police State Coalition were vindicated in New York Criminal Court. Port Authority Police falsely arrested activists and claimed the sidewalk in front of Ground Zero was private property. See... UQ Wire: Arrests at Ground Zero (Part 2)

UQ Wire: Former FAA Special Agent Writes To Kean - I recently had an opportunity to review FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmunds? open letter to you as Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and felt compelled to write in support of her observations. See... Former FAA Special Agent Writes To Thomas Kean

Are Political Spin-Machines Making Mileage Out Of Terrorism Threats? - Terrorist Alerts: Genuine Threats or Political Ploy? - Interview with Craig Eisendrath, senior fellow with the Center for International Policy, conducted by Scott Harris See... Terror Alerts: Genuine Threats Or Political Ploy?

UQ Wire: 9/11 Hijackers Have Some Mighty Odd Friends - Fifteen months before the 9/11 attack a 26-year old Moroccan man whose name and multiple aliases appear on numerous terrorist watch lists started a company in Florida a man who is today the Chief Military Attaché ¦or the Moroccan Embassy in Washington, DC. See... UQ Wire: Atta & The Disappearing Helicopters

UQ Wire: Does The US Really Want 9/11 Convictions? Hamburg, Germany - The United States has said it will not let key al Qaeda suspects in its custody testify at the retrial of the only September 11 suspect ever to be convicted. See... UQ Wire: U.S. Withholds Witnesses in 9/11 Trial

UQ Wire: Cell Phone Miracles On 9/11 - Last week, USA Today reported a joint effort between Qualcomm and American Airlines' to allow passengers to make cellphone calls from aircraft in flight. According to the story, the satellite-based system employs a "Pico cell" to act as a small cellular tower. See... UQ Wire: Link ? Miracles & Wonders In The NY Press

UQ Wire: Many Questions Remain Unanswered - When the commission began its work 9/11 CitizensWatch posed a simple set of questions as did the families. The Commission was paid $15 million dollars to answer these questions. Most of them remain unanswered. See... UQ Wire: Silence over Commission's Failings

Scoop Exclusive: 911 Investigator Reveals FBI Was Told To Slow Down Its Investigation - "After the terrorist attacks of September 11 we, the translators at the FBI?s largest and most important translation unit, were told to slow down, even stop, translation of critical information related to terrorist activities so that the FBI could present the United States Congress with a record of ?extensive backlog of untranslated documents?, and justify its request for budget and staff increases." See... UQ Wire: Sibel Edmonds Letter To Thomas Kean

Marjorie Cohn: Bush 9/11 Reaction Pure Plaster - The families of the people killed in the September 11 attacks had to fight tooth and nail for a commission to investigate why their loved ones died. George W. Bush opposed an investigation, but finally relented in the face of public pressure. See... UQ Wire: Bush Jumps on the 9/11 Band-Aid Wagon

Green Left Weekly: Fahrenheit 9/11- I was amused and a little offended by Bolt's rant, but hardly surprised by his predictable Rottweiler-like assault on Moore's documentary. Bolt is part of a desperate ? and unsuccessful ? campaign to derail the relentless forward march of the film. See... Will Fahrenheit 9/11 Bring Down Bush And Howard?

911 Report: Sibel Edmonds Is Confused - The countdown is finally over, and a five hundred sixty seven-page Commission report is out. According to the Commission Chairman, they have seen ?every single document? and have interviewed ?every single relevant witness and authority?. See... UQ Wire: Sibel Edmonds ? Puzzled & Curious

911 Report: Mary Pitt Is Apportioning Blame - In the wake of the release of the report of the 9/11 Commission, there is one question being asked over and over with many answers coming from all corners of society. ''It was Clinton's fault!'' ''It was Bush's fault!'' ''It was the fault of the FBI or ... See... Mary Pitt: Who Is Responsible For 9/11?

UQ Wire: Tom Flocco - New 9/11 Scandal Homeland Security whistleblower Mary Schneider is naming names, revealing that former FBI Director Louis Freeh, Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and numerous U.S. senators and congressmen knew before the September 11 attacks that U.S. immigration officials were bribed by an illegal Moroccan Muslim allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden?s half-brother. See... UQ Wire:Feds Knew About 911 Bribery Before Attacks

UQ Wire: Welcome To Terrorland - Although the FBI has denied it even existed, the terrorist support network that provided assistance to Mohamed Atta and his fellow hijackers remains in place today in Florida. See... UQ Wire: Terror Network Alive In Florida

UQ Wire: Ray McGovern Previews The 9/11 Commission's Report - Will the Sept. 11 Commission follow the example set by Congress and the Intelligence Community and let itself be intimidated by Vice President Dick Cheney? See... UQ Wire: Will The 9/11 Commissioners Cave?

Rookie In The Hotseat On 9/11 - According to the personal written statement of Navy Captain Charles J. Leidig, Jr., entered into the record during today?s hearings before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Leidig revealed that on September 10 he was asked by Brigadier General Montague Winfield to stand a portion of his duty as Deputy Director for Operations for the National Military Command Center (NMCC), which would require supervision and operation of all necessary communications as watch commander. See... UQ Wire: Rookie In Command Of Ops Center On 9/11

UQ Wire: William Rivers Pitt: Everyone Has A Story - My friend Doris has two stories. The first is about a woman she knew who ran out of the Towers, but then realized a co-worker was still upstairs. She ran back into the building to get him. See... UQ Wire: William Rivers Pitt - Nine Eleven

UQ Wire: Mark G. Levey - Will Tenet Now Tell The Truth? - Reporters for the major papers may have missed the first page of the biggest story since the 9/11 attacks. When his resignation becomes effective July 11, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet will no longer be covered by Executive Privilege. See... UQ Wire: Tenet's Perjury And Resignation

Michel Chossudovsky: The New Most Wanted Terrorist - The US intelligence apparatus has created it own terrorist organizations. And at the same time, it creates its own terrorist warnings concerning the terrorist organizations which it has itself created. See... Michel Chossudovsky: Who is Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi

Little Known Facts About The Terrorists' Terrorist - The truth which no one dares speak of is that as we approach the third anniversary of the Sept 11 attack there has still been no official investigation into the murders of 3000 people that day...at least no investigation to which the American people have been privy. See... Top 10 Things You Never Knew About Mohamed Atta

UQ Wire: 9/11 Suspicions In The Corridors Of Power - In This Item: 1. Interview with Former Minister of National Defense, CANADA 2. Letter from Rep. Johnson (CT) to Commissioners Kean & Hamilton See... UQ Wire: Officials Go On The Record On 9/11

UQ Wire: Catherine Austin Fitts Asks Who Benefitted From 9/11 - A spirited and global citizens' media was birthed by our hunger to learn the truth that lay inside the graves of those who gave their lives on 9/11. See... UQ Wire: Mapping The Real Deal - Cui Bono 9/11?

UQ Wire: A Guide To The 9/11 Cover-up - ?I had no idea hijacked airliners would be used as weapons.? So said Rumsfeld, in his opening remarks to the Kean Commission on March 23, 2004. His final statement on the topic while under oath was, ?I plead ignorance.? See... UQ Wire: A Guide To The 9/11 Cover-up (3)

UQ Wire: Did Rudy Say Something Wrong? - As of this writing, June 2, 2004, the transcript of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's testimony to the 9-11 Commission during the May 18-19, 2004 hearings in New York is the only transcript of that hearing omitted from the Commission website. See... UQ Wire: Long Debunked Rumor Validated by Giuliani

UQ Wire: Why The Perps Of 911 Are Hiding In Plain Sight - A stressed network organised around a few crucial nodes is liable to collapse. What if you saw the collapse coming? Might you not try to improve your position in light of your knowledge? Might you not even try to ensure that the timing of the collapse was to your advantage even if not to the advantage of others? See... Chris Sanders: The Ghost Of Adam Smith

UQ Wire: A Guide To The 9/11 Cover-Up - The Kean Commission was called to life in Nov. 2002, when the White House dropped its objections to an independent 9/11 investigation, after many months of persistent lobbying by Sept. 11th families. At the time, this was seen as a victory for the relatives of those killed on Sept. 11th, and for their allies in the fight for open government and accountability. See... UQ Wire: A Guide to The 9/11 Cover-up (1) and UQ Wire: A Guide to The 9/11 Cover-up (2)

UQ Wire: The Reason We Question - In the third year after 9/11, the U.S. government still has not answered the most important questions about what really happened. And the official 9/11 Commission has failed to ask. See... UQ Wire: Why There Is A 9/11 Truth Movement

UQ Wire: Welcome To Terrorland Reviewed As the result of a two-year investigation, an intrepid journalist has disclosed evidence of a cover-up concerning the flight schools in Florida that trained three of the four terrorists who piloted the hijacked planes. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 Flight School Cover-Up (Review)

UQ Wire: 9/11 Investigators Not Theorists Needed - What the search for the truth about September 11 desperately needs right now is a zealous prosecutor somewhere in America?someone like New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison, who appears to have been right on the money?willing to investigate and indict the 19 suspected hijackers as well as their still-living associates to compel federal investigative agencies like the FBI to present at trial the evidence they have been sitting on. See... UQ Wire: The Red Herrings Of 9/11 and UQ Wire: Re. Daniel Hopsicker On The 911 Inquiry

Misinformation And Misdirection Via The World Wide Wierdness - The following article deals with a seldom discussed issue in the 21st Century internet media world, the use of disinformation and misdirection within the self-proclaimed bastions of the new free internet media, independent online news websites. See... Banned, At Last! By RumorMillNews, My Inside Story

William Rivers Pitt Kent State Shootings Anniversary Address- The following remarks were delivered by William Rivers Pitt on May 4th on the campus of Kent State University, at a ceremony to mark the 34th anniversary of the Kent State Shootings. See... UQ Wire: Tin Soldiers And We Are Coming

UQ Wire: Saudis Clients In Terror Flight School's Unauthorised Flights - A federal complaint filed April 5 in Ft. Myers, FL. accusing flight school owners Wally Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers of flying numerous "unauthorized and unsupervised flights" during April and May of 1999 makes no mention of the clients on the illegal flights, who, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, were Saudi nationals. See... Flight School Flew Saudis On Unsupervised Flights

UQ Wire: Bush Appears Before The 911 Commission - Last Thursday, George W. Bush emerged from his ''chat'' with the 9/11 Commission and responded to questions in a 4 minute press conference. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 Commission Accomplished

UQ Wire: BushCheney Appear Before 9/11 Commission (Transcript) - Chairman Kean: The Commission will come to order. Welcome, Mr. President and Mr. Vice President. Although, per our agreement, you are not being placed under oath, we expect that your testimony will consist only of the truth. See... UQ Wire: BushCheney Testimony Before 911 Comission

UQ Wire: Remember Genoa - President Bush, Condi Rice and the 9/11 Commissioners all mentioned the G-8 Summit over the past week. However, most are just not looking at or acknowledging that there is now an 'Elephant in the Room.' See... UQ Wire: Dancing Around The Genoa Warning

UQ Wire: The Presidential Daily Brief Takes Center Stage
- Ivan Eland ? The release of the classified intelligence briefing to President Bush entitled, ''Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S,'' which was given to the president more than a month before September 11, illustrates the U.S. government?s failure at what should be its primary purpose: ensuring the security of its citizens. See... Ivan Eland: Laziness in the Face of Mortal Danger
- Thomas S. Blanton - President Bush on Saturday, 10 April 2004, became the first sitting president ever to release publicly even a portion of his Daily Brief from the CIA. See... UQ Wire: The President's Daily Brief

UQ Wire: The Perfect Alibi That Isn't- The administration's planning for the war against Afghanistan actually started (at the latest) in March, 2001 (per Janes Defense Weekly (subscription required)), a full six months before 9-11 and less than two months after taking power. See... UQ Wire: The Perfect Alibi (Part II)

UQ Wire: Questions For Condeleeza Rice - National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to appear before the September 11 Commission on Thursday, 8 April 2004. Her sworn testimony will be broadcast on a variety of media channels. See... William Rivers Pitt: 20 Questions for Condi

UQ Wire: Four Flights Carried Saudis From Post 911 America - A copy of a previously unpublished manifest, obtained late Thursday night and dated September 15, 2001, provides evidence of a private Boeing-727 Saudi flight from Lexington, Kentucky to London. But the names on the manifest raise serious questions about FBI policies and procedures related to witness identification, criminal investigations and obstruction of justice. See... UQ Wire: Questions About Saudi Flights After 9/11

Sheila Samples: Cheney's Captive Commission - I often wonder what Chicago's late, great Mike Royko thinks about "Boss" Dick Cheney literally snickering up his sleeve at the direction he's managed to steer the Independent (sic) 9-11 Commission to effectively cover up what he and others in the administration knew before 9-11. See... Sheila Samples: If Royko Were Here...

UQ Wire: Bush & Cheney Fighting For Their Freedom - As Americans are burned and desecrated by ''liberated'' Iraqis, revelations about the Bush administration's ''slash and burn'' campaign against patriot Richard Clarke continue to emerge. See... Bush And His Advisors Vulnerable To Prison Terms

A Report From The Intl. Inquiry Into 911 In San Francisco - Mainstream media pundits, government officials and well-intentioned patriots have been quick to point a finger at skeptics of the official White House 9/11 story and brand them 'conspiracy theorists'. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 International Inquiry - Phase One

UQ Wire: Richard Clarke Defies Gravity - Former White House Counter-Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke has managed to do something that defies modern political gravity. He has stayed in the news, hour after hour and day after day. See... UQ Wire: William Rivers Pitt - The Line

Stephen Crockett & Al Lawrence On Richard Clarke - The recent controversy swirling around the Bush White House, the 9-11 Commission and the Richard Clarke book, Against All Enemies has been very enlightening. See... The Bush Admin. and 9-11: Open Eyes Required

Doug Giebel: How Bush Administration Policy Was Made - In this best of all possible political worlds, might and money triumph over adversity. Until the dramatically expected appearance of Richard Clarke, Lady Luck was blowing almost daily on the dice of George W. Bush and the Bushvolk. See... Doug Giebel: Candide in the Wilderness

UQ Wire: Of Course The President And His Advisor Knew - Everybody Did- "No one anticipated the kinds of strikes that took place in New York and at the Pentagon." - 'The 9/11 Debate,' Washington Post editorial - That line from the Washington Post has been repeated ad nauseam by other newspapers, and across radio and television. It has achieved the status of bedrock conventional wisdom, of something axiomatic. See... UQ Wire: September 11 Should Have Been Stopped and UQ Wire: Why Didn't Bush and Condi Know?

UQ Wire: Did President Bush Fly For The CIA In 1974? - During the summer of 1974 George W Bush flew for a CIA-connected airline in Alaska later suspected by the Iran Contra Commission of being involved in CIA drug trafficking in support of the Contras, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. See... UQ Wire: Bush Flew For Airline Tied To Iran Contra

UQ Wire: Catherine Austin Fitts Says Follow The Money - Much has transpired since September 11, 2001. Something does not add up. Someone has something to hide. See... The Real Deal: 9-11 Profiteering

UQ Wire: 9-11 Truth On The D.C. Metro - A month-long $35,000 "No 9-11 Cover-up" ad campaign with colorful, eye-catching posters on all 267 Washington, DC metro train cars transporting 600,000 commuters back and forth throughout the District of Columbia and its surrounding bedroom suburbs in Virginia and Maryland began today. See... UQ Wire: 9-11 Cover-up Ads in Washington, DC

UQ Wire: The 911 Truth Movement Takes To The Streets Of NYC - More than 100,000 people turned out Saturday for the big antiwar demonstration in New York: ''The World Says No to War.'' See... UQ Wire: 9/11 Truth Block at NYC Antiwar Demo

UQ Wire: 911 Panel Still Considering Bush Testimony Conditions - Recent comments indicate the independent 911 panel is still listening to the court of public opinion regarding open testimony by officials at the very highest levels of government. See... 9-11 Panel Still Discussing Bush Subpoena

William Rivers Pitt: Playing Politics With 9/11 - The attacks of September 11 have become, morosely, a political football. The Bush for President campaign is running commercials that display burning towers and the faces of brave firefighters, said firefighters being played by actors. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 Nonsense

9/11 Families Prevented From Attending A Truth Rally - Yesterday in Westbury, Long Island, 9/11 victim families members and others planning on attending the Rally organized by 9/11 CitizensWatch were blocked from access to the Rally site on the edge of Eisenhower Park by Nassau County Police Department on order from the Secret Service despite have been granted permission in advance by Sergeant Oí¥ary of the Special Investigations Section of the Nassau County Police Department. See... UQ Wire: Police Block 9/11 Families From Rally

UQ Wire: Rush Limbaugh Calls 9/11 Widows Party Hacks - Two letters were written to Mr. Limbaugh today by the two 9-11 widows whose voices were used during his radio broadcast. The controversial Limbaugh referred to Republican Kristen Breitweiser and Monica Gabrielle as Democratic, "campaign consultants... not grieving widows... obsessed with rage and hatred." See... UQ Wire: 9-11 Widows Respond to Limbaugh Attacks

UQ Wire: William Rivers Pitt On Bush's 9/11 Adverts - Sooner or later, if you live in a world without consequences, you will say or do something so utterly reprehensible, so completely beyond the pale, that those who behold your pestiferous splendor will be left, simply, in awe. See... UQ Wire: Selling Death for Fun and Profit

UQ Wire: 9/11 - The Peace Movement's Ground Zero It is common knowledge that the Bush team had written the Patriot Act "before" 9-11. We also know through the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) written by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc., that their designs for conquest in Iraq and elsewhere were planned "before" 9-11. See... UQ Wire: Stopping the 9-11 Cover Up is Ground Zero

Bush's AWOL Year ? What Was He Really Doing? - In Pt I, the MadCowMorningNews uncovered evidence indicating President George W. Bush?s disputed ?lost year? of service in the National Guard is not the only period of time during his abbreviated stint which remains shrouded in mystery. See... Bush, Bath, Bones, & BCCI: The Ties That Bind. MadCowMorningNews Exclusive: What George Did In 1972? - A MadCowMorningNews investigation into the controversy currently swirling around President George W. Bush?s service in the National Guard has uncovered evidence indicating that Bush?s disputed ?lost year? is not the only period of time during his abbreviated stint in the Guard that remains shrouded in mystery. See... UQ Wire: The Secret History Of GWB In Alabama

UQ Wire: Dereliction of Duty - Denying Accountability - President Clinton was forced to testify under oath about his sexual peccadilloes. This testimony was then publicly broadcast. See... UQ Wire: Bush and the 9/11 Commission

UQ Wire: News Roundup From 9/11 CitizensWatch - A comprehensive examination of 9/11 and its aftermath demands review of a variety of difficult and controversial issues and questions. Toward that end CitizensWatch has compiled the following stories that have appeared recently online and in the press. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 News/Lobbying Initiative

William Rivers Pitt: What Things Are Self Evident? - Nicole Frye and Bryan Spry are dead because of George W. Bush. Both died in Iraq. Both were 19 years old. William Ramirez was also 19 years old, as was Holly McGeogh. See... UQ Wire: The One You?ve Been Waiting For

UQ Wire: 911 Victims Pose Some Unanswered Questions To Bush - The Family Steering Committee believes that President Bush should provide sworn public testimony to the full ten-member panel of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. See... UQ Wire: 911 Families Pose Questions For G.W. Bush

UQ Wire: Civil Society Summoned For Citizens 911 Inquiry - Therefore, this Inquiry intends to bring together, to share what they have learned with the world, independent researchers, questioners, seekers of evidence, authors, film-makers: all those who desire and work to discover the truth about September 11? See... UQ Wire: Int'l 911 Inquiries ? SF & Toronto

Michel Chossudovsky: Something Is Rotten In The States - America?s leaders in Washington and Wall Street firmly believe in the righteousness of war and authoritarian forms of government as a means to ''safeguarding democratic values''. See... Global Research: The Criminalization of the State

UQ Wire: 911 Protesters Arrested At Ground Zero - On February 7th, 2004, four activists from the "No Police State Coalition" were arrested at Ground Zero when they refused a police order to move from in front of the World Trade Center Path Train Station. See... UQ Wire: Arrests at Ground Zero

UQ Wire: Whitewashing The White House & Questions For Condi - While not defending President Clinton's unethical behavior, I feel compelled to point out that he was, as a sitting President, forced to testify under oath and in public in facing questions over sex at the conclusion of a 5 year investigation that consumed nearly $50 million. See... UQ Wire: Facing Up To A White House Whitewash. See also? UQ Wire: Unanswered Questions For Condi Rice

UQ Wire: Complete 911 Timeline Updated - The most recent update to the timeline was made on January 30, 2004. On the same date, a fascinating video dealing with an important unheeded warning of the 9/11 attacks was also posted. See... UQ Wire: Major Update To The Complete 911 Timeline

UQ Wire: 911 Families Lobby For Inquiry Extension - Members of the Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission have asked me to pass on their recent statement and plea for an urgent lobbying effort to be sure recently introduced legislation calling for an extension of the deadline for the 9/11 Commission is passed in both the House and the Senate.
See... UQ Wire: 9/11 Families Call For Lobbying Efforts

Scoop Link: German Trial Hears Evidence Of 911 Warning - The United States was warned of impending September 11 terrorist attacks by an Iranian spy, but ignored him, German secret service agents testified yesterday in the trial of an alleged al-Qaida terrorist. See... UQ Wire: Trial Hears Of Iranian Agents 911 Warning

UQ Wire: Theory? Here Are Some Facts - Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. See... UQ Wire: Commentary - Paranoid Shift

UQ Wire: John Buchanan The Republican Who Roared - I stand before you today less as a candidate and more as a messenger and the message I bear is simple and stark. We have all been lied to about 9/11, the country is in mortal danger and only you can make it right. See... UQ Wire: "They wanted it to happen" - J. Buchanan

UQ Wire: A Woman Who Tells It Like It Is - Kristen Breitweiser, Widow Of 9/11 Victim: Well, I think it doesn't come as a surprise that he [911 Commission Chair Thomas Kean] stated that 9/11 could have been prevented. See... UQ Wire: 911 Widow Kristen Breitweiser On Hardball

UQ Wire: 911 Failures Of Bush Admin. On Prime Time TV- For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News. See... UQ Wire: CBS - 911 Attack Was Preventable - Kean

The 911 Lawsuit You Can't Read About In The Paper - Think you're already amazed, alarmed or appalled enough by the state of US journalism today? Chew on this a while and think again. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 In Never-Neverland

UQ Wire: A 911 Inquiring Mind Is Silenced - A month has passed since former Senator Max Cleland, member of the National Commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks (the Kean Commission), told the New York Times that the White House and President Bush's re-election campaign had reason to fear what the commission was uncovering in its investigation of intelligence and law enforcement "failures" before Sept. 11. See... UQ Wire: Bush Bribes Max Cleland To Shut Up?

UQ Wire: Compromised And Compromising 911 Commission A National Scandal - Many of you might recall comments made by a field General during the Afghan war saying, in so many words, that they were not there to go after Osama Bin Laden... See... UQ Wire: Compromised 911 Investigation A Scandal

John Kaminski: Do You Believe What You Read? - Did you know there's a war game played by Air Force types that posits a situation where the United States in the year 2017 conducts a preemptive first strike on China by using a next-generation space shuttle, which swoops down and annihilates strategic ... See... John Kaminski: Levels Of The Game

UQ Wire: Kyle Hence Writes To The US Media - Editorials and informative peices are vital to bring fruition to the issues swirling around the 9/11 investigation. And this showdown between the White House and the 9/11 Commission is surely worthy of attention. See... UQ Wire: White House Stonewalling 9/11 Documents

The Case Against The US Govt For 911 - Part Four - In early summer 2001 , US officials received numerous warnings from domestic and foreign intelligence agencies that al-Qaeda terrorists planned ?spectacular? air attacks on prominent landmarks inside the US. See... UQ Wire: THE CRIMES OF 9/11 (Part 4)

UQ Wire: In Defence Of The Independent 911 Commission - An Open Letter to Columnist John Podhoretz in defense of Chairman Kean and his Commission's request for ''highly sensitive'' but ''highly material'' documents now being withheld by the Bush Administration. See... UQ Wire: An Open Letter regardng the Kean Mutiny

UQ Wire: The Independent 911 Commission Goes To Pakistan Here follows two articles on a secret mission to Pakistan by members of the 9/11 Commission leaving one wondering if perhaps when the Joint Inquiry Report refers to "foreign involvement" preceding 28 redacted pages that it may be referring to Pakistan in addition to Saudi Arabia, widely held under suspicion about a possible role in 9/11. See... UQ Wire: 911 Commission Secret Mission To Pakistan

UQ Wire: An Alternative View Of 911 Events - In these series of selected excerpts from Chaim Kupferberg's landmark article, Kupferberg reveals the marketing plan to introduce Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to the public as the 9/11 mastermind in June 2002. See... The Official Legend of 9/11 is a fabricated Setup

Scoop Links: The Un-Intelligence Community - Two recent links to articles in the mainstream media shedding light on the recesses of the usually opaque US and Israeli intelligence communities and their actions and omissions. See... Scoop Links: CIA Perjury & Israeli 911 Spy Rings

UQ Wire: Breaking Sidney's Book - I am beginning to despise reading. I have lost count of the number of times I have read some passage in a politically-oriented book, and then been uncontrollably motivated to hurl said book against a wall or across the room in fury. See... UQ Wire: The Sins of September 11

UQ Wire: Michael Moore Has Seven Unanswered Questions - I have seven questions for you, Mr Bush. I ask them on behalf of the 3,000 who died that September day, and I ask them on behalf of the American people. See... UQ Wire: Answers please, Mr Bush

The Real Deal: A Letter to the Wall Street Journal - ''I fear you buried your lead. The reason citizens develop theories is because those with the responsibility, authority and resources to provide answers fail to do their job." See... UQ Wire: Failure to Provide Answers Fuels Stories

Aziz Choudry: Stealing September 11th - If the grinch stole Christmas, the Neoliberals and warmongers keep trying to steal the 11th of September. See... Aziz Choudry: The Twin Terrors. Meanwhile the following related remarks were delivered by William Rivers Pitt to a September 11 symposium hosted by WBAI at the Riverside Church on Friday, September 12. See... UQ Wire: New York, You?ve Been Used

Bernard Weiner: Two Years Of Learning About America - About Last year, close to the time of the first anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks, I wrote "Twenty Things We've Learned One Year After 9/11." Now we're approaching the second anniversary, and it's time for an update. See... America Two Years After 911: 25 Things We Now Know

UQ Wire: Boston Globe Sent A Bunch Of Unanswered Questions - Who called Mayor Willie Brown, telling him not to fly on September 11? Who purchased all the put options against the downed aircraft that day, earning him/them millions of dollars? And why hasn't this been given serious attention by the press? See... UQ Wire: A Letter To The Boston Globe

UQ Wire: Unanswered Questions Of 911 - On July 24, Congress' joint intelligence panel finally released a declassified version of its inquiry into the 9/11 attacks. Described variously in the next day's press reports as "scathing," "damning," "harshly critical," and an "indictment" of White House secrecy, the report detailed a stunning series of failures by the CIA and FBI that led to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. See... UQ Wire: The Unanswered Questions Of 9/11

UQ Wire: Must Read Article On 911 - In mid-June, F.B.I. director Robert Mueller III and several senior agents in the bureau received a group of about 20 visitors in a briefing room of the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. See... UQ Wire: NY Observer - Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush

UQ Wire: John Kaminsky On Why War Is A Bit Like Divorce - Sometimes, what is obvious to some remains invisible to others. Why this is so usually involves matters of preconceived beliefs. See... UQ Wire: Why Faith And Government Don't Mix

Citizen's Watch Response To 911 Joint Inquiry Report - 9/11 CitizensWatch is in the midst of a review of the nearly 900pp. Joint Inquiry Report on 9/11. We will be releasing this report some time in the coming weeks well in advance of 9/11/03. See... UQ Wire: Preparing Analysis of 9/11 Joint Inquiry

UQ Wire: Tom Flocco - Intimidation On The Trail Of 911 Truths - A former Democratic nominee for the United States Congress from the 20th District, Bakersfield, California was threatened on April 24 by Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Borak from the Phoenix office of the United States Marshal?s Service. See... UQ Wire: U.S. Marshal In 9/11 Evidence Cover-Up

Central Europe: When Things Are Not What They Seem - Nineteen percent of Germans believe it is possible that elements of the United States government may have intentionally allowed or even ordered the Sept. 11 attacks to go ahead. Thirty percent of those under 30 hold this view. And 68 percent of all ... See... UQ Wire: Conspiracy Madness Grips Central Europe

911 Commision Will Get The Truth. Yeah Right! - Several citizens' organizations as well as the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks have expressed hope that the 9/11 Commission will ultimately reveal the truth. Their hopes may be a little overblown. See... UQ Wire: Who's Who on the 9/11 Commission

UQ Wire:Lack Of DoJ, DoD Cooperation With 911 Commission - The task in front of us is monumental. Time is slipping by. Every day lost complicates our work. Extensive and prompt cooperation from the U.S. government, the Congress, state and local agencies, and private firms is essential. See... UQ Wire: First Interim Report Of 911 Commission

UQ Wire: Buzzflash Special - A Spectacular Attack On Us All - On September 11, 2001, when most were too numb to contemplate much of anything, Newsweek told us what to expect. See... UQ Wire: The Attack Has Been Spectacular

UQ Wire: Was NORAD Asleep On The Flight Deck? - On May 21 and 22, 2003, the 9/11 Independent Commission held its second set of public hearings, focusing on the issue of air defense. It's not surprising if you haven't heard about this, because the hearings were poorly covered by the media, with major papers such as the New York Times and Los Angeles Times failing to write any articles on them. See... UQ Wire: The Failure to Defend the Skies on 9/11. See also... UQ Wire: The Insiders Are Coming Out

UQ Wire: The Unusual Business Practices Of Terror's Training Crew - A controversy over the sudden closing of a flight school in Orlando in early March reveals a hidden connection between the bankruptcy in Orlando and the secretive organization which ran Huffman Aviation in Venice, the unacknowledged home base of Mohamed Atta and his Hamburg cadre during almost their entire time in the U.S. See... UQ Wire: 911 The American Connection

UQ Wire: Tom Flocco Is Following The 911 Commission Of Inquiry - Senator For those Americans watching recent C-Span replays of 9/11 Commission testimony, particularly air force generals and other government officials addressing issues surrounding U.S. military air defense failures, a number of revelations suggested additional doors for further inquiry and witness scrutiny. See... UQ Wire: Pre-Attack Briefings As 9/11 Evidence

UQ Wire: Slaughtergate - His name was Paul Nakamura, and he was from Santa Fe Springs, California. Nakamura was an American soldier, part of an ambulance crew in Iraq transporting an injured soldier for medical attention on June 19 when the ambulance was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Nakamura was killed in this attack. He was 21 years old. See... UQ Wire: William Rivers Pitt - Slaughtergate

UQ Wire: The mystery surrounding the death of John O'Neill - In the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the finger of guilt was directed toward the only plausible author for such a sophisticated and ruthless act of terror - Osama bin Laden. See... UQ Wire: The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11

UQ Wire: The Unusual Business Practices Of Terror's Training Crew - A controversy over the sudden closing of a flight school in Orlando in early March reveals a hidden connection between the bankruptcy in Orlando and the secretive organization which ran Huffman Aviation in Venice, the unacknowledged home base of Mohamed Atta and his Hamburg cadre during almost their entire time in the U.S. See... UQ Wire: 911 The American Connection

UQ Wire: 911 Commission Goes To Capitol Hill An original Washington Post headline " Lawmakers Urge More Aggressive Sept. 11 Probe", posted online on May 22 was changed to "New Panel, Independent of 9/11 Commission, Is Sought" (WP 5/23/03), when the print version was released the following day. The print headline prompted Lee Hamilton, Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Acts Upon the United States, to object at the opening of the second day of hearings that the actual proceedings and the content of the article didn't match the headline. See... Post Headline on 9/11 Inquiry May Prove Prophetic

U.S. Media Finally Wakes Up To The World's Biggest Scam - The story of the missing trillions that the world's biggest military organisation has been unable to properly account for has till now been mainly confined to the fringes of the media. Last week the story that Scoop columnists have championed for more than a year finally went mainstream. See... U.S.'s Missing $Trillions Make Mainstream At Last

Colonnade Hotel And The Center Of Gravity - A cavernous conference room within the Colonnade Hotel in Boston became the center of gravity for the Massachusetts liberal/progressive community on the evening of May 17. See... UQ Wire: The Most Important War

William Rivers Pitt: Blowback in Riyadh - The compounds were a holdover from the Saudi oil boom of the 1970s, a place where non-Muslims as well as Saudis seeking distance from the hard social rules in Riyadh could have a drink, a place where their wives could wear a swimsuit to the pool without being covered from head to toe. See... UQ Wire: Blowback in Riyadh

PR Campaign Launched To Hijack The Question Mark - It is growing massive. It has become newsworthy. It can be devastating. And yet, it's so simple. - We, the people, have chosen to hijack the question mark. See... Because Bush Won't Answer Questions: "Question W"

UQ Wire: 911 Kingpin Mohamed Atta's Federal Ties Deepen- For at least four years while living in Hamburg during the 1990?s 911 terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was part of a 'joint venture' between the U.S. and German Governments. See... UQ Wire: Atta In Elite US-German Exchange Prog.

UQ Wire: Baseball And GWB's Remarkable CV - One of my earliest memories of childhood is of sitting in front of the television watching a baseball game with my mother in our apartment outside Boston. See... UQ Wire: At The Turning Of The Tide

UQ Wire: The Silence about September 11 - They call it "The fog of war" for a reason. A lot of things get lost in the fire and the smoke that should not be forgotten, and yet they are, spent and cast aside like depleted uranium shell casings left to roast on a dusty desert roadside. See... UQ Wire: The Silence about September 11

USA Coup: The 64,000 Tonne Grandma In The Corner Is Finally Noticed In D.C - As election officials rush to spend billions to update the country's voting machines with electronic systems, computer scientists are mounting a challenge to the new devices, saying they are less reliable and less secure from fraud than the equipment they are replacing. See... USA Coup Link: Washington Post Notices The Coup...and SCOOP: AMERICAN COUP FULL COVERAGE

UQ Wire: U.S. Reporter Breaks Bush Blockbusters -- On English TV - Remember Cynthia McKinney? The conventional wisdom is that the outspoken congresswoman was too abrasive and too extreme, and she got whacked by an uprising of voters last November. See... UQ Wire: Truth in Exile, Remember Cynthia McKinney

UQ Wire: What Has Jerry Falwell Got To Do With 911? - The money man behind two Florida flight schools which trained an as-yet undisclosed number of terrorist pilots has ties with the Evangelical Christian Right, including having loaned televangelist Jerry Falwell a reputed $1 million to bailout his failing religious enterprises a decade ago, and serving as Director of an avowedly Christian aeronautics company planning to manufacture a new business jet in Israel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. See... UQ Wire: 911 The Evangelical Christian Connection

UQ Wire: Mohamed Atta's German Friends - A year-long MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered evidence that at least seven of Mohamed Atta's closest associates in Florida during the year leading up to the 9/11 attack were not Arab, but German. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 The German Connection

Ashcroft's Brownshirts Move Against Rock'n'Roll - "? a band member of mine who prefers to go unnamed, his mother received a visit from two plain clothes men from the military and this band member of mine has a sibling who is in the Gulf. And they came in and talked to her and said you have a child who's in the gulf and you have a child who's in this band Spearhead who's part of the "resistance" in their words, and they had pictures?" See... Michael Franti on Gov't Surveillance of His Band

UnansweredQuestions.Org Briefing To National Commission On 911 - In light of the government sanctioned National Commission on 9/11's first open hearing to be held this coming Monday and Tuesday in NYC, here is a list of key unanswered questions that many feel MUST be addressed by their investigation. See... Top 11 Questions/Talking Points For 911 Commission

UQ Wire: Staged Terror Event In NYC Falls Apart? White powder and gas mask are found in luggage, but Israeli woman not detained and allowed to board plane to Texas? - The Texas FBI won't return calls asking if the woman has actually been interviewed?- The powder tests positive for anthrax, then is declared to be harmless? See... UQ Wire: A Very Odd Incident At LaGuardia Airport

John Kaminsky: Only Solution Now Is To Arrest Bush - We now face a daunting task. An unpleasant and possibly fatal realization now confronts all of us in our daily lives. Many of our most powerful leaders need to be arrested for numerous and continuing crimes against humanity. See... John Kaminski: Open Letter To The American People

UQ Wire: If At First You Don't Convince, Lie, Lie Again - Dictator Bush and his wimpy quisling suckups at the New York Times, CNN, and Fox have proved that Adolf Hitler's strategy was right ? if you tell a lie enough times it soon becomes the truth in the public mind. See... John Kaminski: The Dream In Flames

UQ Wire: War On Terror Victory A "Mass Of Lies" - The official story of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's arrest is a mass of lies, cover-ups and contradictions. It is highly likely Mohammed was not arrested on March 1 as we have been told. What exactly did happen is unclear, but the details of his arrest suggest something very disturbing is going on. Paul Thompson investigates. See... UQ Wire: The "Capture" Of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

UQ Wire: 911 Hijackers Nearly All Tracked By CIA - By the end of 2002, it was clear that all 19 hijackers, the official 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui and almost all informants had been simultaneously tracked by CIA, FBI or any other intelligence agencies who shared this information before Sept. 11th. Many hijackers even lived next to CIA operatives, which operated at these places, before the hijackers decided to "join" them. See... UQ Wire: Tracking All Hijackers (LIHOP Series)

UQ Wire: 911 Commission Opens - Citizens Pledge To Seek Answers - The government's 9/11 National Commission opened today. A new non-partisan group called 9/11 CitizensWatch presented "unanswered questions" from 9/11.It says it will work with both the National Commission and independent researchers to get to the bottom of the September 11 tragedy. See... Group Pledges to Monitor 911 Government Commission

UQ Wire: Mike Ruppert On Dis-Integration - So many emails. So many people worried and confused. So many people acting as if it doesn't make sense. Yes, there's good reason to be confused. See... UQ Wire: What, Me Worry?

Are There Any Terrorists George W Doesn't Know? - George and Laura Bush with Sami Amin Al-Arian during the 2000 campaign in Florida. Al-Arian is charged with 50 counts of terrorism. Al-Arian even went to a White House briefing with Karl Rove. See... Bush Tied to Terror Suspect Sami al-Arian - Image

Recovered History: Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein - The U.S. restored formal relations with Iraq in November 1984, but the U.S. had begun, several years earlier, to provide it with intelligence and military support (in secret and contrary to this country's official neutrality) in accordance with policy directives from President Ronald Reagan. See... UQ Wire: The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984

Do As We Say Not As We Do ? US Pursues Mini-Nukes - When former Los Alamos scientist and noted nuclear weapons adviser Richard Garwin met with Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Victor Mikhailov in Moscow earlier this year, Mikhailov brought up U.S. research on micro-nukes. The linkage is clear: the seemingly harmless doodlings of U.S. nuclear scientists justified similar programs in Russia. See... Nuclear Junkies: Those Lovable Little Bombs and Pentagon Plans August Conf. On "New Smaller Nukes"

Kaminski: These Hollow Days Of Well-Worn Lies - These days hang heavy, languid, dreamlike. I imagine how it must have been sitting in a park on the coast of France staring at the gray ocean sky in those dreary days right before World War II. The Nazis had stolen your country and you wondered how long it would be before your life, if you kept it, would be changed forever.
See... John Kaminski: The "Dead Zone" Scenario

UQ Wire: Bill O?Reilly - The Ugliest American - On February 4th, during a live interview on the Fox News program ?The O?Reilly Factor,? media personality Bill O?Reilly verbally attacked Jeremy M. Glick, a signer of the Not In Our Name ?Statement of Conscience? whose father was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. See... UQ Wire: 9/11 family member attacked by O'Reilly

Kaminski: We're As Stupid As They Think We Are - How stupid do they think we are? Only hours after our much-praised Secretary of State is revealed to have been using material plagiarized from a college student to justify why we're going to kill thousands of people with bombs, our government issues a terror alert and expects us to believe it? See... John Kaminski Fake Terror Alerts

UQ Wire: 911 Investigative Community?s Best Links - If you were to scan all the sites mentioned here, and picked out stories that piqued your interest, something profound would happen. You would never trust what you read in your local newspaper or believed what you heard on TV ever again. See... UQ Wire: Kaminski's Best 9/11 Sites ? 4th Edition

UQ Wire: Connections To Al-Qaeda Closer To Home Than Iraq - What level of proof will Colin Powell use when he tries to show links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda ? Because if you replace 'Iraq' with 'United States' in the following 5 statements, then they are already 'public knowledge'. See... UQ Wire: Whose Standards Is Iraq Being Tested By?

How Henry Kissinger Laundered The Money To Arm Saddam - Nothing ever changes under the sun? the following comes from deep within the archives of Totse.com, but it could have been written today with a few names changed. Kissinger you will recall was nominated to head the 911 Commission, ... See... UQ Wire: Kissinger, Scowcroft BNL & Iraq

Scott Ritter Gets The Cointelpro Treatment - This is what we're up against, in America: an evil that is almost demonic in its pure malevolence, a dark destructive spirit that feeds on pain and is animated by the will to crush its enemies underfoot. This is the face of an enemy that must be defeated. See... UQ: Target Scott Ritter - The War Party Gets Ugly

UQ Wire: Le Carre Speaks Out Against US Agression - America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War. See... UQ Wire: John le Carré ­ USA Has Gone Mad

Big Brother Comes To The Land Of The Free - The United States has now reached the point where a total ?surveillance society? has become a realistic possibility, the American Civil Liberties Union warned in a report being released today. See... 'Big Brother' is No Longer a Fiction ACLU Warns

Download UQ Wire?s Song of the Year - Click on the link and download the "Buddy Buddy," mp3, Possibly the most controversial song of the new year! It comes courtesy of Michael Kane & Clarity produced@ C*Supreme Studios? See... UQ Wire: Unanswered Questions ? The Song

UQ Wire: Commissioned To Cover-up 911 - A cruel sham is being perpetrated on the American public and especially on the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. See... UQ Wire: 911 Commission - Forgedda Boudit

UQ Wire: Commissioned To Cover-up 911 - A cruel sham is being perpetrated on the American public and especially on the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. See... UQ Wire: 911 Commission - Forgedda Boudit

UQ Wire: George Discovers His Inner Maniac - Look at this face. Tell me. What do you see? Do you know who this man is talking to? He's making a speech in front of a group of soldiers in Texas, on January 3, 2003. He's talking to the television. See... UQ Wire: The Essence Of GWB's Inner War-Child

UQ Wire: Yet More Saudi-Bush Connections Revealed - A company that provided security at the World Trade Center, Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport and United Airlines between 1995 and 2001 was backed by a private Kuwaiti-American investment firm whose records were not open to full public disclosure, with ties to the Bush family. See... UQ Wire: Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother. And for details of a recent bribery scandal tied to Marvin Bush (George's little Brother) see... Another suspect deal, another Bush brother in the mix

John Kaminsky: Perhaps George W. Is Guilty Until Proven Innocent Too - Guilty until proven innocent. This is the new American way. And no evidence is necessary to order someone killed. Just the say-so of the man with the gun. See... Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The New American Way

UQ Wire: Unconstitutional Manoeuvres In The White House - Bush's determination to designate two American citizens as - unlawful enemy combatants - looks like another step towards an American gulag. See... UQ Wire: Bush's Gulag

John Kaminsky: Fighting Back Online - Fingers of frost creep across our December windows as we fire up our computers long before dawn to check the latest atrocity from Washington, the latest affront to the honesty and dignity of the human race. See... John Kaminski: The New Resistance

UQ Wire: Introducing, Dubya?s New Puppet - George W. Bush has tapped Thomas Kean to chair the independent investigation into the attacks of September 11th. This nomination comes in the wake of the choice of Henry Kissinger for that post, and his sudden departure. See... Bush Nominates Himself to Chair 9/11 Investigation

Dr Death Admits He Is Not The Man To Find The Truth About 911 - It is with regret that I accept Dr. Kissinger's decision to step down as Chairman of the National Commission to investigate the events of Sept 11, 2001 and the years that led up to that event. See... Kissinger Steps Down From 911 National Commission

Homeland Insecurity: Watch What You Email To Your Friends! - Today, December 10, 2002 at approximately 1:00 pm EST, at my residence 1651 Goldston Carbonton Road, Goldston, NC, I noticed 2 then 3 then 4 cars enter my driveway. I went out to greet them and asked if I could help them with something. See... "I Was Raped By The Agents Of Bush-Whacko"

?. And A Wacko Bush Rape Allegation - Margie Schoedinger of Missouri City, Texas has filed a lawsuit against George W. Bush in Fort Bend County Court. In her suit she is alleging "race based harassment and individual sex crimes committed against her and her husband." See... Scoop Links: Rape Accusations Against George Bush

William River?s Pitt: Stupid Is As Stupid Does - I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed?..See... UQ Wire: The Pure Essence of Stupid

UQ Wire: Deporting The Evidence Of 911 Complicity - The United States I.N.S. is acting to place the prime suspect in a wider-ranging 9/11 conspiracy investigation out of the reach of the Independent Investigation. See... UQ Wire: INS Deporting Rudi Dekkers

UQ Wire: In Defence Of Gore Vidal - The following is a critical analysis of Ron Rosenbaum's critique of Gore Vidal's 9/11 piece. Rosenbaum's lengthy column ran on page 1 in the 11/11/2002 edition of The New York Observer. See... UQ: Rosenbaum?s Penile Prose Vs Vidal?s Triumph

... Like Finding Maggots In A Sandwich - Julian Borger writes in The Guardian that Americans reacted to this appointment with "relief mixed with nostalgic affection," while Europeans were surprised to learn Kissinger was not dead or in jail. I knew he was not dead or in jail. But to this American, having him back in government is like finding maggots in a sandwich. See... Barbara O?Brien: Another Henry Kissinger Article

Homeland Insecurity: What's Really In The Vaccines? - Hitler claimed to have gotten his inspiration for the "final solution" from the extermination of Native Americans in the U.S. For that matter the first example of germ warfare in the U.S. was in 1763 when some of the European colonists gave friendly Indians a number of blankets that had been infected with smallpox, causing many deaths. See... John Kaminski: When Medicines Are Meant To Kill

The Photos Kissinger Doesn't Want You to See - These photographs of Kissinger [taken by Adriana Lorete], seen pondering affairs at a trade conference in Brazil, originally appeared on the front page of Jornal do Brasil, a major Rio de Janeiro daily, on November 13, 1992. See... Scoop Images: Henry Kissinger Digs Deep . While we are addressing the subject of fingers, noses and so-called world leaders . Scoop?s editors would be remiss not to notify readers of perhaps the most famous nose pick in Internet history. See... Scoop Video Link: George W. Bush?s Big Pick

More Kissinger Outrage - Last week, Bush tapped Henry Kissinger to chair the independent investigation into how and why the September 11th attacks took place. This investigation has been hotly sought after for months by many members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans. See... UQ Wire: The Bagman Cometh

Guest Opinion: Remembering The Father?s Berrigan - Imagine, going to prison because you want to stop killing, vaporizing, and massive poisoning of the land and waters? Doesn't make sense does it? Meantime you have a Kissinger, responsible for God knows how many deaths from Vietnam, to Indonesia, to Cambodia to South America being given the Nobel Peace Prize. See... The Fathers Berrigan & Man's Inhumanity to Man

We Have Reached Spiritual Death - "The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism." Rev. Martin Luther King - 4 April 1967. See... UQ Wire: : A Time to Break Silence ? Rev. King

The ?Terrorist? Sniper Who Worked For The Government - That John Allen Muhammad, nee John Allen Williams and several aliases, was known to the U.S. Government long before the "sniper" shooting spree is fast becoming apparent. See... Washington Sniper - Terrorist Or Informer?

UQ Wire: Senator Shelby?s Words Of Wisdom - How refreshing to hear a powerful Republican Senator who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reflect my sentiments exactly! See... UQ Wire: "...the full story has yet to be told"

The Thomas White Affair ? Crooked Accounting Up Close And Personal - Scoop today publishes the source documents (emails, charts and spreadsheets from Enron Energy Services) which were used by freelance journalist Jason Leopold for his expose about U.S. Army Secretary Thomas E. White?s direct involvement in crooked accounting deals at the energy giant. See... The Thomas E. White Affair ? The Documents

UQ Wire: Rumsfeld's New Strategy Create Your Enemy - This column stands foursquare with the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, when he warns that there will be more terrorist attacks against the American people and civilization at large. Why? Because these attacks will be instigated at the order of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense. See... UQ Wire: Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attack LINKS TO RELATED REPORTS:
- LA Times ? The Secret War
- Washington Times - Panel wants $7bn elite counter-terror unit

UQ Wire: Jeb Bush, Drugs & And The Terror Pilot Training School - A Learjet belonging to the true owner of the Venice flight school that trained both terrorist pilots who flew into the World Trade Center was seized with more than 30 pounds of heroin onboard by Federal Agents in July of 2000 at the Orlando Executive Airport. And the airline involved just happens to be Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris?s favourite! See... UQ Wire: Jeb Bush Flies High With Terror Airways

UQ Wire: Gore Vidal Intimates Bush Complicity In 911 -Gore Vidal is America?s most controversial writer and a ferocious, often isolated, critic of the Bush administration. Here, against a backdrop of spreading unease about America?s response to the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath, we publish Vidal?s remarkable personal polemic urging a shocking new interpretation of who was to blame. See... UQ Wire: Gore Vidal?s The Enemy Within

Hear No Enron, See No Enron, Speak No Enron - Secretary of the Army Thomas White is preparing to lead thousands of the nation?s soldiers into war with Iraq and still, not one journalist has spilled any ink on White?s knowledge of the suspect accounting practices at Enron Energy Services, the division he ran for several years before being tapped to run the Army. See... Press Silent As US Army Is Entrusted To Wrongdoer

UQ Wire: Bush?s War Machine Hits Turbulence - All over the world, both internationally and here at home, the wheels are coming off of the Bush Administration's plans for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And Bush Administration responses to recent events appear to be moving a tense international situation into a new phase where chaotic, scattered and increasingly bloody violence may spread risk to civilian populations and the estimated 80,000 to 100,000 U.S. troops that have been forward-deployed in anticipation of the attacks for months. See... UQ Wire: Wheels Come Off U.S. War Plans For Iraq

SRA Commentary: The Dark Cloud Behind The Silver Lining - Sanders Research is forecasting a war, a fall in oil prices, a stock market rally and then financial capitulation. Consequently the coming sharemarket rally is an opportunity to sell, not buy. See... SRA Commentary: Beltway Bolsheviks

UQ Wire: White House Cover Story Doesn?t Wash - On the evening of September 11th, 2001, the White House held a Press Conference. The stated purpose of the press conference? To "give you a walk-through of the President's day; what he did when he learned various pieces of information." See... UQ Wire: White House Coverup Creates More Problems

UQ Wire: What Is The White House Trying To Hide About 911? - In breaking news over the last two days President George Bush has been accused of double speak over the creation of an Independent Commission to investigate the events surrounding the attacks of September 11th 1991. See... White House Accused Of Halting 911 Commission

UQ Wire: The MI5?s Dirtiest Secret ? Payoffs To bin Laden - Tony Blair has tonight ordered a D-Notice on British media reporting government officials signing court gag orders. This regards the case of former MI5 officer David Shayler, who has evidence to prove MI6 gave ?100,000 to bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, arms to Iraq and had prior knowledge of several terrorist attacks on London in the 1990's. See... British Press Gagged Over MI6's ?100,000 bin Laden

UQ Wire: Unpleasant Developments Foreseen - There is not much joy this month in seeing that events over the last year have unfolded exactly the way I said they would, writes Mike Ruppert of From the Wilderness. See... UQ Wire: Across the Rubicon - Here Comes the Draft

UQ Wire: Advert Reveals Anthrax An Inside Job - The following is the text of a banner ad in the Washington Times as of Oct. 5th, and it was published in the print edition. Pete Velis, the author who identifies himself as "just an American," uses the available evidence and obvious logic to show that the anthrax attack was almost certainly carried out by perpetrators in an off-budget military program. See... UQ Wire: Anthrax Ad in Wash.Times Says Inside Job

UQ WIRE SPECIAL: Who is Delmart "Mike" Vreeland? - The question has beguiled thousands since the shady, self-proclaimed operative for the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence says he tried to warn the world about 9/11 while sitting in a Canadian jail in the summer of 2001. Vreeland, who is now a fugitive from both Canadian and American justice, claims to have written a set of notes that listed potential terrorist targets, including the World Trade Center. The notes were eerie. But were they real? Is Vreeland a con man, or is he really a spy whose government has turned on him? See... UQ Wire: Wildcard, Who is Delmart "Mike" Vreeland?

Countdown To War: War, Oil And Disinformation - Last Wednesday Her Majesty?s government finally released its long ballyhooed and much awaited report on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. There is no smoking gun and no evidence that the Iraqi government has or plans to use so-called weapons of mass destruction. What one does find is a repetitive catalogue of over fifty pages of charges and assertions designed to frighten and dissimulate. It succeeded in scaring me out of my wits. See... SRA Commentary: How to Control People

UQ Wire: George Bush?s Least Impressive 20 Minutes - Regarding your article, "The President as Incompetent liar". I have two points. One, the president was speaking with a 3rd grade child... Two, everything was very chaotic and it is very easy to screw up time frames. But perhaps you have never been in a life-or- death adrenaline trip. Had to have been massive overloads of information, both true and false. See... UQ Wire: Bush's Tangle of Lies, Part 1

UQ Wire: Biowarfare Compulsory Vaccination Plans - Federal officials have released a plan instructing states to deliver smallpox vaccinations should an outbreak occur due to a terrorist attack. The plan details how states can inoculate up to one million people in 10 days after confirming only a single smallpox infection in the entire nation. Why? See... UQ Wire: Plans For Mass Smallpox Vaccinations

Intelligence Failure The Rule Not The Exception - When one hears the cable clatchers speaking somberly about post-September 11 "intelligence failures' one should bear in mind that they are not really telling you anything new. Intelligence failure is not the exception but the rule. And to pin one's expectations for national security upon intelligence is, to borrow from Dr. Johnson thoughts on second marriages, the triumph of hope over experience. See... Undernews: The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience

UQ Wire: The World Must Stand Up To George Bush George - Bush will invade Iraq unless restrained by the United Nations. If the United Nations, above all, fails to oppose a U.S. invasion of Iraq, it will forfeit its honor, integrity and raison dí¥´re. See... UQ Wire: Ramsey Clark Letter To United Nations

UQ Wire: Where Condaleeza Rice Further Fudges Her 911 Lies - Q Dr. Rice, can I clarify something you said a couple weeks ago? When the August 6, 2001 memo came out, you came here and said that nobody -- I don't have the quote in front of me, but nobody could have imagined a plane being used as a weapon and being driven into one of our buildings. But the hearings revealed some intelligence -DR. RICE: Somebody did imagine it. Right. See... Condi Rice Clarifies May Comments On 911 Knowledge

UQ Wire: Three Cheers For The Forces Of Truth - Last Monday night on C-SPAN I was greatly heartened and encouraged by the words of former weapons inspector and ex-Marine, Scott Ritter who said that the "politics of fear must be defeated by the forces of truth." See... UQ Wire: Musings On Courage & The Forces For Truth

UQ Wire: Washington Post On The Importantce Of Oil - A U.S.-led ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could open a bonanza for American oil companies long banished from Iraq, scuttling oil deals between Baghdad and Russia, France and other countries, and reshuffling world petroleum markets, according to industry officials and leaders of the Iraqi opposition. See... UQ Wire: US Drillers Eye Huge Iraqi Petroleum Pool

UQ Wire: Dubya?s 911 Reactions Fail The Sniff Test - The difficulty when investigating the possible criminal actions of powerful officials is that they can use their power to cover up involvement in criminal conspiracies. One of the ways around this problem is to examine a politician's behavior at the time of the crime. See... UQ Wire: Bush Betrayed Consciousness Of 911 Guilt

UQ Wire: Unanswered Questions For Wannabee Senator Sununu - What was New Hampshire Senate wanabee Rep. John E. Sununu doing in Qatar five months before 911? Was he among the group of congressmen who appear to have been conducting backdoor negotiations with the Taliban? And if so what did he ask for? See... Will Sununu?s TV Pollster Tell About The Taliban

All You Need To Know About 911 & Much, Much, More - This timeline dispels the notion that theorists on 9/11 are working on the basis of supposition and prejudice, it shows clearly that unanswered questions relating to 911 are probably the most vital issue currently facing the people of this planet. See... UQ Wire: The Complete 9/11 Timeline

Lawsuit Puts Bush Terrorism Links In Spotlight - Saudi Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, an Osama bin Laden benefactor, has laundered money into tax-exempt U.S. entities for years as a foreign financier of terrorism. But a new 9/11 lawsuit is thrusting Mahfouz?s latent past business links to George W. Bush back into the spotlight. See... UQ Wire: Connecting The Dots Bush..Bath..Bin Laden

Piecing Together The Harken Energy Story - Harken Energy was formed in l973 by two oilmen who would benefit from a successful covert effort to destabilize Australia's Labor Party government (which had attempted to shut out foreign oil exploration). See... UQ Wire: Harken Energy Chronology

Gulf War Profiteering ? Victors and Victims - It is as if the United States were the matador, Saddam Hussein the bull and the United Nations the picadors, tormenting the bull until he lowers his head for the kill. See... Gulf War Profiteering ? Victors and Victims

The Power Of Puppy Dog Eyes Exploited - Yes, this video is shocking, but the shock is intended to shock people past questioning the claims of where the video came from. All day long the media has been blasting the "Arabs kill puppy dogs" story all over the airwaves. See... UQ Wire: Wag The Gassed Dog

Real Bush Plan Revealed - Seize All The Oil! - In what may be the opening salvos of a financial and energy apocalypse, the Financial Times reported yesterday that wealthy Saudi investors had begun a run on their U.S. banking deposits that may have taken as much as $200 billion out of U.S. banks. See... Saudi Arabia: The Sarajevo of the 21st Century?

UQ Wire: Questioning the Official Line - Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney spoke out with courage and determination. Her call for a public inquiry into the events surrounding 9-11, did not center on so-called "intelligence failures" by the FBI. She zeroed in on the conspiracy of silence and the total lack of political accountability. See... UQ Wire: 911 - Foreknowledge or Deception?

911 Hijackers Who Lived At A US Navy Base - Come Fly With Me? A Saudi Flying Instructor Who Died Mysteriously On May 8 Had The Same Name as Two 9/11 Hijackers Who Lived At The Same U.S. Naval Air Base See... UQ Wire: 911 Hijackers Who Lived At A US Navy Base

The Big D Of Talk-land Tackles The Tough Questions - Dear Mr. Donahue, Thank you for being the first American television journalist to have the courage to 'give voice' through your guests to the nagging doubts millions of Americans have about our government and whether or not we know the whole story about what happened on that terrible day last September. See... UQ Wire: Thanks To Mr Donahue and UQ Wire: 911 Debate Opened Wide On Donohue

UQ Wire: The Ever So Fortunate Son - There is a thread running through George W. Bush?s biography that connects family to power to wealth. With no assets but his name and connections, Bush became a wealthy man, and a governor, and now a President. Without those connections, he?d be nothing. See... UQ Wire: The Loyalties of George W. Bush

911 Investigation: The Guys Who Let It Happen - Imagine you wake up from a coma and you learn that 11 months ago, an "Attack on America" destroyed some significant buildings, killed 3,000 people and forced a war against terrorism. You switch on the news and see pictures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, India and Pakistan. See... UQ Wire: 911 - They Let It Happen On Purpose!

The Big D Of Talk-land Tackles The Tough Questions - Dear Mr. Donahue, Thank you for being the first American television journalist to have the courage to 'give voice' through your guests to the nagging doubts millions of Americans have about our government and whether or not we know the whole story about what happened on that terrible day last September. See... UQ Wire: Thanks To Mr Donahue and UQ Wire: 911 Debate Opened Wide On Donohue

Cone Of Silence Covers White House 911 Links - Something strange has been occurring on the fourth floor under the dome of the U.S. Capitol. The security is so strict that even the representatives and senators from the joint-intelligence committee investigating the September 11 attacks must check their cell phones and pagers at the door of the sound-proof room -- a meeting place regularly swept for listening devices. See... 911 Terrorist Links to Congress & White House

26 Questions For World?s Biggest Bank On Gold & Enron - J.P. Morgan Chase Chief Executive Officer William B. Harrison's response to the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was notable for what it did not say. See... 26 Questions For Senators On J.P. Morgan Chase

Bernard Weiner: What Have You Learned Since 911? - As we approach the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it might be useful to see how far an ordinary citizen's knowledge has progressed one year on. So here, in the way of a summing-up, based on journalistic documentation, is a list of things we Americans have learned since last September -- some of which might prove useful in the run-up to the November elections. See... 20 Things We've Learned Nearly a Year After 9/11

UQ Wire: ?Miraculous? Book On 911 Reviewed - This book, on many levels, is a miracle, not unlike the mysterious process of Birth, and revives our collective aspirations for Hope, Peace, Justice, Joy and Life to prevail against those in power who scream for War. See... UQ Wire: The War on Freedom (Book Review)

The Mother Of All Enrons - President George W. Bush may have personal reasons for hampering investigations into insider trading connected to the attacks of September 11th. See Tom Flocco?s Profits Of Death Series - Part III?.UQ Wire: Connecting Dots - Profits Of Death Pt. 3

The Biggest Drug Dealers Of Them All ? The CIA- On May 11, 2000, the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence made public their ?Report on the Central Intelligence Agency?s Alleged Involvement in Crack Cocaine Trafficking in the Los Angeles Area.? The investigation by the HPSCI focused solely on the ?implications? of facts reported in investigative reporter Gary Webb?s 3-part expose in the San Jose Mercury News, August, 18, 19, and 20, 1996, titled ?Dark Alliance,? in which it was alleged that a core group of Nicaraguan Contra supporters formed an alliance with black dealers in South Central Los Angeles to sell cocaine to the Bloods and Crips street gangs, who turned it into crack, then the drug-profits were funneled back to Contra coffers by the Contra supporters. See... Preston Peet: How to Be a Successful Drug Dealer

Harvard?s Insider Eisenson Enters The Harken Energy Frame - WASHINGTON - As a congressional candidate in the Texas oil patch in the late 1970s, the last thing George W. Bush wanted to mention to the rural electorate was his postgraduate degree from Harvard. But when Bush later was involved in struggling Harken Energy Corp., Harvard Management Co. poured a total of $30 million into Harken, keeping it afloat and helping sustain Bush's career. See... UQ Wire: Harvard?s Millions Poured Into Harken and The Money Lords Of Harvard

Not Important! Think Again: Money Laundry Special - The United States is in the process of creating a national network of informers. Thus, in imitation of some of the nastier regimes around the world, including those against which the US waged the Cold War, the Bush regime is in the process of recruiting people to spy on their fellow citizens. If you doubt this read the following. See... Not Important! Think Again: Money Laundry Special. See also... Not Important? Think Again - July 15th

UQ Wire: A Truly Patriotic Law Suit Is Launched - ... a detailed Amended Complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on 11/26/03 in the case of Mariani vs. Bush et al that he is alleging President Bush and officials including, but not limited to Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Feinberg that they: 1. had knowledge/warnings of 911 and failed to warn or take steps to prevent; 2. have been covering up the truth of 911... See... UQ Wire: Mariani Vs Bush (Full Amended Complaint)

UQ Wire: Parallels Between The Death Of JFK & 911 - Last January, Mike Ward compared the post-9/11 conspiracy frenzy to what occurred in the aftermath of JFK?s murder. See... UQ Wire: JFK, 9/11 and Conspiracy Theories

UQ Wire: Investment Espionage & The White House - There is growing evidence that the FBI and other government intelligence entities are more closely linked to the documented accumulation of pre-9/11 insider trading profits than was originally thought. See... UQ Wire: Investment Espionage And The White House

George W?s Perfect Storm: Harken My Tough Talk - In an effort to control damage brought on by the collapse of yet another major U.S. corporation, President George W. Bush served up a tough-talk speech Tuesday, with a cryptic warning that ?more scandals are hiding in corporate America.? See... Read My Lips: Oil Was Well with Harken

UQ Wire: 911 Evidence Shutdown - On June 20, Bush Administration officials quietly informed a New York judge of their intention to commence legal actions likely to be far-reaching in their constitutional, political, and individual rights implications pertaining to current lawsuits and government secrecy related to the attacks on September 11, 2001. See... UQ Wire: DOJ To Attempt Shut Down of 9/11 Evidence

Unanswered Questions: Anthrax Oddities - This paper, first published 05 February 2002, is widely considered a seminal article on the issue of the Anthrax-by-mail incidents which closely followed the 911 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. See... UQ Wire: Dr Rosenberg Analysis of Anthrax Attacks

Unanswered Questions: The Real Patriots - On June 10th, a band of concerned citizens came together at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to raise questions about September 11th. They called the meeting the 9/11and Public Safety Conference. Among them were members of families who had lost a loved one on September 11th. These people are not satisfied with the answers they are being given by our government about 9/11. See... UQ Wire: It?s Patriotic to Ask Why and UQ Wire: June 10th Press Conference Transcript

Unanswered Questions: Has FBI 911 Inquiry Been Knobbled? - The official in charge of ferreting out information about the FBI for a joint congressional intelligence panel allegedly obstructed a Justice Department probe of the bureau two years ago. See... Congressional 911 Investigator Led Waco Coverup

US Legal Rights Abuses In The Name Of Terror - White House assigns itself the power to determine who is a terrorist, while denying an American defendant due process and access to attorney - Interview with Theresa Younger, executive director of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union. See... Bush Administration Decides Who's a Terrorist

Scoop Link: 20/20 911 Israeli Spies Investigation - The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know ? They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange," she said. See... Scoop Link: 20/20 911 Israeli Spies Investigation

Bush-Nazi Connections: Beware The Cornered Rat - In the period of national mourning following the September 11 attacks, public suggestion of U.S. government negligence or complicity in the attacks would have been an apostasy to most Americans. See... Bush-Nazi Connections: Beware The Cornered Rat

Unanswered Questions: Debating The Merits Of Conspiracy Theory - 9/11 "Conspiracies" and the Defactualisation of Analysis - How Ideologues on the Left and Right Theorise Vacuously to Support Baseless Supposition - A Reply to ZNet's 'Conspiracy Theory?' Section. See... Unanswered Questions: Defactualisation of Analysis

Unanswered Questions: 911 Victims Get Cold Shoulder From US Media - Julie Sweeney's voice wavered on the verge of breaking as she addressed those gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. "I don't want anybody to ever deal with the phone call I dealt with at 8:58 that morning from my husband from United Flight 175?? See... Unanswered Questions: Review & Coverage Of Event

Unanswered Questions: From The Wilderness - It's good to have you with us. Now, let's begin by talking about what...about that which makes you so interesting to government officials, but also to the packed audiences who fill your speaking halls and those who subscribe to your publication, "From the Wilderness." See... Unanswered Questions: Rough Transcript Of Rough IV

New Allegations Connect More Dots In 9/11 Puzzle - UnansweredQuestions.org, an independent, non-partisan network of citizens concerned about the growing number of issues surrounding September 11, as yet un-addressed or unresolved, launched its new website at the first press conference dealing with 9/11 issues other than airline safety on June 10, 2002 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. See... New Allegations Connect More Dots In 9/11 Puzzle THESE QUESTIONS, TOO, ARE UNANSWERED:
- Unanswered Questions For Rep. Cynthia McKinney

C-SPAN Denies Public TV Access To 9-11 Victims' Families - A controversy is brewing over a decision by the public interest US news broadcaster C-Span's decision not to cover the Unanswered Questions press conference to be held today in Washington D.C, (7am Tuesday New Zealand Time). See... C-Span Chooses Not To Help Answer Questions

Whistleblower Accuses FBI Of Obstructing Terrorism Investigations - Yesterday, Thursday US EST, Friday NZT, a press conference was held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. by Judicial Watch with FBI agent Robert Wright. Prior to the Press Conference Wright was threatened with criminal prosecution if he shared his views with the public. See... Scoop Links: FBI Whistleblower Blows Lid Off 911. For RealVideo of the C-SPAN broadcast press conference of FBI whistleblower Robert Wright? Click Here

Sludge: Can We Put Flight 77 To Bed Now? - Another piece to the Flight 77 mystery has emerged, a new eyewitness who saw the plane crash and took photos of the burning debris immediately after the crash. See... Sludge Report #133 - I Saw Flight 77 & Took Photos

Howard?s End: A Conspiracy So Monstrous - At last count, there were a dozen U.S. Congressional Committee's investigating the tragedies surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. It is difficult to grasp the magnitude of the chaos, but as former FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover, once said, " The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." Maree Howard writes. See... Howard's End: The Truth Is Out There - Somewhere!

Look Who Trained The 911 Terrorists - New evidence linking the owner of the Venice Florida flight school which trained Mohamed Atta to the Central Intelligence Agency surfaced earlier this month. See... Venice Terrorist Flight School Linked To CIA

Scoop World: Pentagon?s War On Terror Misinformation Plans - The New York Times reported today that the Pentagon?s Office of Strategic Influence is ?developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations? in an effort ?to influence public sentiment and policy makers ... See... Pentagon Propaganda Plan Is Undemocratic, Illegal

Iran, Iraq and North Korea an "Axis Of Evil" - Says GWB - ?Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watch -- yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch. We can't stop short. If we stop now -- leaving terror camps intact and terror states unchecked -- our sense of security would be false and temporary. History has called America and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility and our privilege to fight freedom's fight.? See... The President's State of the Union Address

... But What Did He Mean? - Defence Sectretay Rumsfeld: He said exactly what he said. He said it well. He didn't suggest anything. If there was anything about last night's speech, it was that it had near perfect clarity. Q: But a senior administration official after the speech said he didn't necessarily mean to say military action, but it could be other action. Rumsfeld: What do you mean, "necessarily mean to say"? He didn't say. He not only didn't necessarily say, he did not say. He said exactly what he said. See? See... DoD News Briefing 30/1- Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers

Conspiracy! 9-11 Part Of Global Domination Strategy - The Northwoods plan for staging phony attacks on the U.S. to justify invading Cuba was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962. It was never implemented, perhaps due to fear of Soviet retaliation. See... Northwoods: U.S. Plan for Terror to Justify War

Scoop Satire: Make Bombs That Love! - Washington - The US government today revealed it's controversial new 'caring' missile, In a statement to the world's press President Bash, flanked by Rentagun officials and business representatives, said that the new missile - codenamed the SYMP-1 - heralded the arrival of a 'long overdue ethic of compassion and brotherhood into the regretful business of warfare.' See... Scoop Satire: Caring Missile Aims To Soften Blow

Conspiracy! Where Were The Fighters On 911? - On 11 September there were two entire squadrons of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews Air Force base just 10 miles from the Pentagon. Their job was to protect the skies over Washington D.C. They failed to do their job. Despite over one hour's advance warning of a terrorist attack in progress. The team at tenc.net do the research, and indict the US Administration for murder. See... Guilty For 9-11 (Part 1) ? Introduction and Guilty For 9-11 (Part 2) - Cheney's Cover Story

ZZZZZzzzzt Feedback - As an American Citizen, who was essentially forced to read your "propaganda" for my work, I am compelled to tell you that I am offended. Not that that will mean anything to you, as far away as you are. See... Feedback: Scoop Offends Ground Zero Worker

Guest Opinion: It Gets Worse, Much Worse - A more complete timeline listing crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events which have taken place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the attacks. See... Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away and from November 2nd? Links: Le Figaro Reports CIA, bin Laden Contacts

Hot Link: The Terror Trail That Is Left Cold - The following is the first part of a transcript of a BBC Newsnight programme broadcast on November 6th concerning problems the FBI has been having with investigating certain Saudi citizens and their connections in their efforts to combat terror in the US. See... Scoop Link: BBC On GW Bush - Bin Laden Connection The programme sheds further light on issues raised in The GW Bush - Osama Bin Laden Connection.

Impassioned Comment From Ground Zero - ?Bush?s stolen election has put the whole world out of whack, threw us into a parallel universe that wasn?t supposed to be, and everything that has transpired since - the rockets? red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gloria?s cancer and death, the stolen dreams of real democracy - pile jumbled on the ocean floor as the earth heats up, the seas rise around us, and, like the World Trade Center, swallow us whole.? See... An Open Letter From NYC ? From Mitchel Cohen

The World?s Most Wanted In His Own Words - Transcript Of Message From Shaykh Usaamah Ibn Laadin (Osama bin Laden) broadcast November 3rd by Al-Jazeera satellite television channel. See... BBC Transcript Of Osama Bin Laden Statement

Guest Opinion: US Special Forces Veteran Has Serious Misgivings - I'm a retired Special Forces Master Sergeant. That doesn't cut much for those who will only accept the opinions of former officers on military matters, since we enlisted swine are assumed to be incapable of grasping the nuances of doctrine. See... Former Green Beret Tells Pravda Bush Is Lying. See also (mining a similar vein)... Sludge Report #114 ? The Great Game

US Anti-terrorism Bill Sweeps Aside Civil Liberties - WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed profound disappointment with Senate passage of the controversial anti-terrorism legislation and promised to monitor the implementation of its sweeping new powers for any abuse of civil liberties. See... ACLU Responds to Passage of Anti-Terrorism Bill

Guest Column: A Scots MP Pipes Up For Free Speech - In exile in Switzerland, shortly before the Russian revolution, Lenin opined that "there are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen". We are, it seems, living through such weeks. See... Guest Column: We Will Not Be Silenced

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